Shakespeare's Contemporaries
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Romeo and Juliet (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 410 times as drama)
avg rating 3.78 — 203,942 ratings — published 1595
Hamlet (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 392 times as drama)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,268 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 327 times as drama)
avg rating 3.88 — 39,630 ratings — published 1994
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 269 times as drama)
avg rating 3.93 — 31,085 ratings — published 1596
Othello (Literature: Stratford Series)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 261 times as drama)
avg rating 3.50 — 5 ratings — published 1622
The Crucible (Paperback)
by Arthur Miller (shelved 244 times as drama)
avg rating 3.51 — 26,323 ratings — published 1953
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (Paperback)
by Samuel Beckett (shelved 236 times as drama)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,541 ratings — published 1952
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by Arthur Miller (shelved 232 times as drama)
avg rating 3.46 — 16,293 ratings — published 1949
King Lear (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 207 times as drama)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,001 ratings — published 1606
Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 192 times as drama)
avg rating 3.54 — 15,971 ratings — published 1601
The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 192 times as drama)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,564 ratings — published 1609
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by Tennessee Williams (shelved 184 times as drama)
avg rating 3.57 — 12,874 ratings — published 1945
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by Tennessee Williams (shelved 180 times as drama)
avg rating 3.91 — 10,403 ratings — published 1947
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by Oscar Wilde (shelved 179 times as drama)
avg rating 4.13 — 15,985 ratings — published 1895
The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 173 times as drama)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,979 ratings — published 1600
Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 168 times as drama)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,268 ratings — published 1600
Shakespeare on the Double! Twelfth Night (Shakespeare on the Double!)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 166 times as drama)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1623
The Taming of the Shrew (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 146 times as drama)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,296 ratings — published 1594
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by Henrik Johan Ibsen (shelved 145 times as drama)
avg rating 3.56 — 7,363 ratings — published 1879
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by Tom Stoppard (shelved 141 times as drama)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,262 ratings — published 1967
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Paperback)
by Edward Albee (shelved 106 times as drama)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,010 ratings — published 1384
The Tragedy of King Richard III (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 106 times as drama)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,679 ratings — published 1602
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone (Paperback)
by Sophocles (shelved 102 times as drama)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,982 ratings — published -429
Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
by Thornton Wilder (shelved 97 times as drama)
avg rating 3.49 — 4,932 ratings — published 1938
Oedipus Rex (Paperback)
by Sophocles (shelved 94 times as drama)
avg rating 3.61 — 6,432 ratings — published 429
Antigone (Paperback)
by Sophocles (shelved 93 times as drama)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1924
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by Jean-Paul Sartre (shelved 92 times as drama)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,190 ratings — published 1944
As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 92 times as drama)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,567 ratings — published 1623
Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 90 times as drama)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,332 ratings — published 1623
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 87 times as drama)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,042 ratings — published 1597
Long Day's Journey into Night (Paperback)
by Eugene O'Neill (shelved 84 times as drama)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,913 ratings — published 1950
Henry V (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 83 times as drama)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,987 ratings — published 1599
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by Lorraine Hansberry (shelved 76 times as drama)
avg rating 3.67 — 5,015 ratings — published 1959
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers & The Eumenides (Paperback)
by Aeschylus (shelved 74 times as drama)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,861 ratings — published 1930
Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)
by George Bernard Shaw (shelved 74 times as drama)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,229 ratings — published 1914
Dr. Faustus (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Christopher Marlowe (shelved 71 times as drama)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,373 ratings — published 1594
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Deluxe Edition (Leather Bound)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 71 times as drama)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,783 ratings — published 1864
Measure for Measure (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 66 times as drama)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,695 ratings — published 1604
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by Jodi Picoult (shelved 66 times as drama)
avg rating 4.05 — 106,654 ratings — published 2004
Faust (Paperback)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (shelved 65 times as drama)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,560 ratings — published 1808
The Winter's Tale (Other Format)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 62 times as drama)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1609
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Paperback)
by Tennessee Williams (shelved 62 times as drama)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,326 ratings — published 1955
Titus Andronicus (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 58 times as drama)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,151 ratings — published 1594
Endgame and Act Without Words (Paperback)
by Samuel Beckett (shelved 57 times as drama)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,597 ratings — published 1958
The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 55 times as drama)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,296 ratings — published 1624
Medea (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Euripides (shelved 55 times as drama)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,338 ratings — published 400
Hedda Gabler (paper)
by Henrik Johan Ibsen (shelved 53 times as drama)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,832 ratings — published 1890
Arcadia: A Play (Paperback)
by Tom Stoppard (shelved 52 times as drama)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,378 ratings — published 1993
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by Khaled Hosseini (shelved 52 times as drama)
avg rating 4.20 — 256,336 ratings — published 1999
Equus (Paperback)
by Peter Shaffer (shelved 52 times as drama)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,745 ratings — published 1973
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"To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected."
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— Preity Zinta
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— Richard Rodriguez
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